Plazes Goes SMS: Text Where You Are

location based services

Tucked away in the pages of the popular location social networking service Plazes (one of the few technologies that actually bring the concept of physical presence to the web) is a web page explaining how to "Plaze" yourself via SMS. This is a great option for those that do not have the Plazes Mobile software on their phone.
Via Plazes SMS you are able to use Plazes with simple SMS messages directly from your mobile phone. Via SMS you can now "Plaze" yourself (set your location), pull your Plaze contacts (and thus tell your contacts where you are and see where they are) information and even locate the nearest free wifi (which I think is a really cool feature!).
I think this is a really great move for Plazes. I have said over and over again that SMS is the key into the mobile universe. While the WAP / phone software feature was nice, it was a little cumbersome and not as quickly ubiquitous as this SMS service is.
For now there is no shortcode involved and its only available in the United States and Germany. Anyone can text to the German or Us number but it will be an international text message :-)
The US number is +1 (718) 407-0566
The German number is =49 176 888 111 33
Plazes SMS